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June 27 Tribal Executive Board Page 8�9
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"Serving the Fort Peck Reservation"
VOL 19 N0. 27
JULY 14,1988
Tribal Board passes third 1988 budget increase
POPLAR-With the passage of a $74,500 increase to the Tribes budget on June 27, the Tribes budget now stands at $5,041,096. This has been the third time since October, 1987 that the Tribes budget has been modified and increased.
The recent budget modification includes an additional $20,000 for burial allowance to tribal members; $2000 to cover the overruns in the May special tribal election, which was originally budgeted at $20,000; travel for the Credit Committee was added in due to special training and changes in their rules, and this was set at $1,033.
An audit found a $7,405 disallowable cost in the Emergency Hay Program that the Tribes have to repay in order to be considered for any such future programs. Six projects were approved that did not have any funding allocated. The new budget modification added in $7,000 Tor the Cotton Petroleum Corp. litigation; $15,000 for the Murphy case acountants contract renewal; $1750 for a Solid Waste contract to haul large items away from the district solid waste sites;
$2,392 to pay off a Sunderland, claim that has to do with brochures for the Ft. Peck Tribes; a project on land records to be completed by Jonny Stiffarm will cost $5,280 and the employment of Robert McAnally as in-house counsel was set at $6,000 for August and September.
Also included in the budget modification was the costs of reprinting the Tribal Constitution at $1,200 and the reprinting of the Enrollment Procedures due to the special election results, at $940 and Enrollment Committee training regarding the new enrollment procedures recently passed will cost $4500.
To some extent,, tribal funds held in reserve were used to pick up the modifications as well as revenue projections were conservatively estimated and thus, more funds have come in and these have also been put towards the modification.
Indian Housing Act signed
President Reagan signed legislation last week which establishes separate statutory authority for Indian housing programs, the White House announced.
The Indian Housing Act of 1988 mandates that the Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] provide funding for Indian housing. In the past, funds were administered for Indian housing through the Public Housing Act of 1937, which applies mainly to low income Rousing in urban communities.
"Mutual help housing for reservations was never in the law before. Now, it'll be much more difficult to do away with Indian
Programs by whittling the udget," said Virginia Spencer, executive director of the National American Indian Housing COun-Council.
She said the 1988 housing act should make HUD more responsive to the needs of reservation communities. Most of the regulations under the public housing act deal mainly with the construction and maintenance of medium to high rise buildings in the cities; the housing on reservations is almost all single family units.
"These high rise buildings have huge operating budgets, mere is no money set aside to help mutual help homeowners maintain their homes. That's why so many of them are falling apart. Many of the low income families can't afford to adequately maintain their homes," said Spencer.
She said the public housing provisions will continue to apply to Indian housing, but future, amendments will likely be tailored to the specific needs of reservation communities.
First on the agenda is to get enough funds just to keep the Indian nousing programs running for another year. Congress is
Eroposing that funding for Indian ousing in fiscal year 1989 be halved: from $144 million in fy 1988 to $71 million in fy 1989. Over the past eight years, funds for Indian housing has been cut by two-thirds.
"What we've been seeing is housing authorities fighting over the crumbs. It's horrible. And if the funding situation doesn't improve, the situation will just get worse," she said.
The housing council says over 93,000 Indian families in the U.S. are in need of housing. In fy 1988, funding was only available to build 1,700 homes.
Another problem faced by housing authorities is the inability to meet housing needs of middle income families.
The National American Indian Housing Council provides training and technical assistance to 173 Indian housing authorities nationwide.
Fort Peck tribal chairman Ray White Tail Feather and Ft. Peck Housing board member Pearl Hopkins represented the Tribes in giving testimoney.
Dukakis opposes Black Hills Bill
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) � Masschusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, the likely Democratic
Eresidential nominee, opposes a ill in Congress that would return more than one million acres of Black Hills area land to Sioux Indians, U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., says.
Dukakis made the remark June 30 during a flight from Washington, D.C., to Iowa, said Daschle, who helped form a group in South Dakota to work for the defeat of the so-called Bradley bill.
The bill, sponsored by U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, D-NJ., would return 1,3 million acres of 7.3 million acres that courts have said were improperly taken in 1877. Indians have refused to accept about $200 million in compensation awarded by the courts, saying land also must be part of the deal. The Bradley bill has been bot-
tled up in the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, of which Daschle is a member.
Daschle said he asked Dukakis to clarify his position on the Bradley bill. During the South Dakota presidential primary campaign this winter, Dukakis said he needed time to study the issue before taking a position.
But last week, Dukakis "told me, 'My position is your position,' ' Daschle said.
Joel Rosenthal, chairman of the South Dakota Republican Party, had called on Dukakis to oppose the measure. He also criticized state Democrats for not including anti-Bradley bill language in their state party platform two years ago.
Democrats also should try to force their national party to oppose the bill this year, the Republican leader said.
Poplar to try for meeting
Centennial Wagon carrying L-R: Retired Chief Justice Frank Haswell, Tribal Board member Pearl Hopkins, former councilwoman Jonny Stiffarm, councilmen Norman Hollow, Walter Clark, Merle Lucas and Caleb Shields. Driver of wagon is unidentified. More parade photos throughout issue. Photo by Nina Fox.
POPLAR�I he Poplar Community Organization will attempt to hold a meeting, their third try. Meetings scheduled for June 21 and June 28 had to be cancelled due to a lack of 50 members as required in the community constitution.
A meeting is set for July 19 with the following agenda:
.Poplar Community Organization - nonallowance of video tape and tape recording of community meeting;
.Chuck Trinder, candidate for Senate District 10;
.Elect vice-chair of community;
.Elect board of directors for Scoot and Skate;
.Report on Poplar Community Constitution and By-Laws;
.Mel Eagleman Sr. on employment, preference, selection and practice;
.G. Bigleggins - YMCA payment plan and lay counselor association;
.Tribal delegations - trip reports for accountability;
.Fort Peck international Pow Wow Organization - debt to Poplar Community; �
.Other business.
Ft Peck Res. hosting fourth celebration of 1988 pow wow season this weekend
Iron Ring
POPLAR � Although there has been no poster out yet proclaiming the event, the Iron Ring Celebration will be held as planned next weekend, July 22 to 24, at the Poplar Legion Park.
Posters with the celebration information will be out by this weekend, according to a committee spokesperson.
Due to unforeseen circumstances surrounding the fund raising the committee had been doing all year long, the committee has announced that their celebration will offer prize money a lot less than planned, but nevertheless they do have funds to award prize money for three places in 18 catagories, provide a feed all three.days and pay the drums.
There will be a mens, teen boys and junior boys divisions with traditional, fancy and grass dance catagories. In trie mens section, first places will be $500.00, second places $300.00 and thirds at $200.00
Womens, teen girls and junior girls divisions will have traditional, fancy and jingle dress catagories. The womens contests will award $300, $200 and $100 in each catagory.
The prize money for the teen and junior sections will be on the poster.
The committee will feed at supper break for all three days. All drums will be paid. r ,
POPLAR � This weekend the fourth celebration of the 1988 pow wow season on the Fort Peck Reservation will take place in Poplar. The first annual Can/Am Fort Peck International Pow Wow is scheduled to kick off Friday and their poster promises numerous activities, contests and invited guests for the 3-day event.
One unique difference this weekend from the other Fort Peck Reservation celebrations is that the committee will be charging admission. The poster states a $6.00 charge will cover all three days, with a one day charge set at $2. According to Levi Olson, chairman of the committee, children ages 4 and under will be admitted free.
Singers and dancers must register to get a "pow wow pass". According to Olson, the cards of the dancers will be stamped as they come in every grand entry ana on the final one op Sunday, the dancers should have six stamps on their card.
Asked where the public will be charged, Olson stated as people are driving down the road onto the celebration grounds, they will have to pay for their tickets and as they get nearer to the grounds, the ticket will be stamped.
Almost all of the tribal chairmen invited have confirmed they will attend, stated Olson, and in their honor a banquet is being planned at 4 p.m. at the Sherman Motor Inn Centennial Room on Saturday, July 16. The committee will have BIA superintendent Dennis Whiteman present them plaques at the celebration grounds at 8 p.m. that evening.
Special featured royalty who will be attending this weekend's celebration is Miss Indian World Prairie Rose Little Sky, from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and Miss Red Earth Princess Kaylene Shane, from Minnesota. Olson said Miss Indian America Linda Lupe cancelled.
A "Big Bucks Bingo Special" will be held at the Poplar Culture
Center beginning Thursday at 1 p.m., running daily through Sunday at 2 p.m., Olson said. The
ames wi II be run by the Dakota Bingo Palace staff.
The First family and descendants of Chief Medicine Bear, Mato Wakan (Medicine Bear), Chief of the Dakota Sioux, will be sponsoring a mens traditional contest in Medicine Bear's honor. Medicine Bear was head Chief of the Yanktonia Dakota Sioux and
signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1886 on behalf of the Fort Peck Dakota, which^now makes the Fort Peck Sioi&. entitled to the Black Hills claim. Medicine Bear was also a key figure in creating the Fort Peck Indian Reservation after traveling to Washington, D.C. to meet with the Indian Affairs and the President of the United States. Medicine Bear spoke with the U.S. Indian Affairs Commissioners on a steam boat docket at Fort Union in 1878, thus creating the Fort Peck Reservation. The next living male kin to Chief Medicine Bear was his son, Edward Medicine Bear. Edward Medicine Bear then passed down his family heir loom of treaties that were signed by his father, Chief Medicine Bear, to his next living kin, who was Jerome First Sr., now deceased. The family descendants of Chief Medicine Bear will be sponsoring a dance contest which will be a total of $1,500.00 and other prizes.
Other activities to be held is the mens softball tourney to be held Saturday and Sunday at the Burton Rider Sports Complex field east of the celebration grounds,
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Volunteers put up fence around the arbor area of the Poplar celebration grounds, getting ready for this weekend's celebration.

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June 27 Tribal Executive Board Page 8�9
Wotanin Wow am weekiy 40c
"Serving the Fort Peck Reservation"
VOL 19 N0. 27
JULY 14,1988
Tribal Board passes third 1988 budget increase
POPLAR-With the passage of a $74,500 increase to the Tribes budget on June 27, the Tribes budget now stands at $5,041,096. This has been the third time since October, 1987 that the Tribes budget has been modified and increased.
The recent budget modification includes an additional $20,000 for burial allowance to tribal members; $2000 to cover the overruns in the May special tribal election, which was originally budgeted at $20,000; travel for the Credit Committee was added in due to special training and changes in their rules, and this was set at $1,033.
An audit found a $7,405 disallowable cost in the Emergency Hay Program that the Tribes have to repay in order to be considered for any such future programs. Six projects were approved that did not have any funding allocated. The new budget modification added in $7,000 Tor the Cotton Petroleum Corp. litigation; $15,000 for the Murphy case acountants contract renewal; $1750 for a Solid Waste contract to haul large items away from the district solid waste sites;
$2,392 to pay off a Sunderland, claim that has to do with brochures for the Ft. Peck Tribes; a project on land records to be completed by Jonny Stiffarm will cost $5,280 and the employment of Robert McAnally as in-house counsel was set at $6,000 for August and September.
Also included in the budget modification was the costs of reprinting the Tribal Constitution at $1,200 and the reprinting of the Enrollment Procedures due to the special election results, at $940 and Enrollment Committee training regarding the new enrollment procedures recently passed will cost $4500.
To some extent,, tribal funds held in reserve were used to pick up the modifications as well as revenue projections were conservatively estimated and thus, more funds have come in and these have also been put towards the modification.
Indian Housing Act signed
President Reagan signed legislation last week which establishes separate statutory authority for Indian housing programs, the White House announced.
The Indian Housing Act of 1988 mandates that the Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] provide funding for Indian housing. In the past, funds were administered for Indian housing through the Public Housing Act of 1937, which applies mainly to low income Rousing in urban communities.
"Mutual help housing for reservations was never in the law before. Now, it'll be much more difficult to do away with Indian
Programs by whittling the udget" said Virginia Spencer, executive director of the National American Indian Housing COun-Council.
She said the 1988 housing act should make HUD more responsive to the needs of reservation communities. Most of the regulations under the public housing act deal mainly with the construction and maintenance of medium to high rise buildings in the cities; the housing on reservations is almost all single family units.
"These high rise buildings have huge operating budgets, mere is no money set aside to help mutual help homeowners maintain their homes. That's why so many of them are falling apart. Many of the low income families can't afford to adequately maintain their homes" said Spencer.
She said the public housing provisions will continue to apply to Indian housing, but future, amendments will likely be tailored to the specific needs of reservation communities.
First on the agenda is to get enough funds just to keep the Indian nousing programs running for another year. Congress is
Eroposing that funding for Indian ousing in fiscal year 1989 be halved: from $144 million in fy 1988 to $71 million in fy 1989. Over the past eight years, funds for Indian housing has been cut by two-thirds.
"What we've been seeing is housing authorities fighting over the crumbs. It's horrible. And if the funding situation doesn't improve, the situation will just get worse" she said.
The housing council says over 93,000 Indian families in the U.S. are in need of housing. In fy 1988, funding was only available to build 1,700 homes.
Another problem faced by housing authorities is the inability to meet housing needs of middle income families.
The National American Indian Housing Council provides training and technical assistance to 173 Indian housing authorities nationwide.
Fort Peck tribal chairman Ray White Tail Feather and Ft. Peck Housing board member Pearl Hopkins represented the Tribes in giving testimoney.
Dukakis opposes Black Hills Bill
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) � Masschusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, the likely Democratic
Eresidential nominee, opposes a ill in Congress that would return more than one million acres of Black Hills area land to Sioux Indians, U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., says.
Dukakis made the remark June 30 during a flight from Washington, D.C., to Iowa, said Daschle, who helped form a group in South Dakota to work for the defeat of the so-called Bradley bill.
The bill, sponsored by U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, D-NJ., would return 1,3 million acres of 7.3 million acres that courts have said were improperly taken in 1877. Indians have refused to accept about $200 million in compensation awarded by the courts, saying land also must be part of the deal. The Bradley bill has been bot-
tled up in the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, of which Daschle is a member.
Daschle said he asked Dukakis to clarify his position on the Bradley bill. During the South Dakota presidential primary campaign this winter, Dukakis said he needed time to study the issue before taking a position.
But last week, Dukakis "told me, 'My position is your position,' ' Daschle said.
Joel Rosenthal, chairman of the South Dakota Republican Party, had called on Dukakis to oppose the measure. He also criticized state Democrats for not including anti-Bradley bill language in their state party platform two years ago.
Democrats also should try to force their national party to oppose the bill this year, the Republican leader said.
Poplar to try for meeting
Centennial Wagon carrying L-R: Retired Chief Justice Frank Haswell, Tribal Board member Pearl Hopkins, former councilwoman Jonny Stiffarm, councilmen Norman Hollow, Walter Clark, Merle Lucas and Caleb Shields. Driver of wagon is unidentified. More parade photos throughout issue. Photo by Nina Fox.
POPLAR�I he Poplar Community Organization will attempt to hold a meeting, their third try. Meetings scheduled for June 21 and June 28 had to be cancelled due to a lack of 50 members as required in the community constitution.
A meeting is set for July 19 with the following agenda:
.Poplar Community Organization - nonallowance of video tape and tape recording of community meeting;
.Chuck Trinder, candidate for Senate District 10;
.Elect vice-chair of community;
.Elect board of directors for Scoot and Skate;
.Report on Poplar Community Constitution and By-Laws;
.Mel Eagleman Sr. on employment, preference, selection and practice;
.G. Bigleggins - YMCA payment plan and lay counselor association;
.Tribal delegations - trip reports for accountability;
.Fort Peck international Pow Wow Organization - debt to Poplar Community; �
.Other business.
Ft Peck Res. hosting fourth celebration of 1988 pow wow season this weekend
Iron Ring
POPLAR � Although there has been no poster out yet proclaiming the event, the Iron Ring Celebration will be held as planned next weekend, July 22 to 24, at the Poplar Legion Park.
Posters with the celebration information will be out by this weekend, according to a committee spokesperson.
Due to unforeseen circumstances surrounding the fund raising the committee had been doing all year long, the committee has announced that their celebration will offer prize money a lot less than planned, but nevertheless they do have funds to award prize money for three places in 18 catagories, provide a feed all three.days and pay the drums.
There will be a mens, teen boys and junior boys divisions with traditional, fancy and grass dance catagories. In trie mens section, first places will be $500.00, second places $300.00 and thirds at $200.00
Womens, teen girls and junior girls divisions will have traditional, fancy and jingle dress catagories. The womens contests will award $300, $200 and $100 in each catagory.
The prize money for the teen and junior sections will be on the poster.
The committee will feed at supper break for all three days. All drums will be paid. r ,
POPLAR � This weekend the fourth celebration of the 1988 pow wow season on the Fort Peck Reservation will take place in Poplar. The first annual Can/Am Fort Peck International Pow Wow is scheduled to kick off Friday and their poster promises numerous activities, contests and invited guests for the 3-day event.
One unique difference this weekend from the other Fort Peck Reservation celebrations is that the committee will be charging admission. The poster states a $6.00 charge will cover all three days, with a one day charge set at $2. According to Levi Olson, chairman of the committee, children ages 4 and under will be admitted free.
Singers and dancers must register to get a "pow wow pass". According to Olson, the cards of the dancers will be stamped as they come in every grand entry ana on the final one op Sunday, the dancers should have six stamps on their card.
Asked where the public will be charged, Olson stated as people are driving down the road onto the celebration grounds, they will have to pay for their tickets and as they get nearer to the grounds, the ticket will be stamped.
Almost all of the tribal chairmen invited have confirmed they will attend, stated Olson, and in their honor a banquet is being planned at 4 p.m. at the Sherman Motor Inn Centennial Room on Saturday, July 16. The committee will have BIA superintendent Dennis Whiteman present them plaques at the celebration grounds at 8 p.m. that evening.
Special featured royalty who will be attending this weekend's celebration is Miss Indian World Prairie Rose Little Sky, from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and Miss Red Earth Princess Kaylene Shane, from Minnesota. Olson said Miss Indian America Linda Lupe cancelled.
A "Big Bucks Bingo Special" will be held at the Poplar Culture
Center beginning Thursday at 1 p.m., running daily through Sunday at 2 p.m., Olson said. The
ames wi II be run by the Dakota Bingo Palace staff.
The First family and descendants of Chief Medicine Bear, Mato Wakan (Medicine Bear), Chief of the Dakota Sioux, will be sponsoring a mens traditional contest in Medicine Bear's honor. Medicine Bear was head Chief of the Yanktonia Dakota Sioux and
signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1886 on behalf of the Fort Peck Dakota, which^now makes the Fort Peck Sioi&. entitled to the Black Hills claim. Medicine Bear was also a key figure in creating the Fort Peck Indian Reservation after traveling to Washington, D.C. to meet with the Indian Affairs and the President of the United States. Medicine Bear spoke with the U.S. Indian Affairs Commissioners on a steam boat docket at Fort Union in 1878, thus creating the Fort Peck Reservation. The next living male kin to Chief Medicine Bear was his son, Edward Medicine Bear. Edward Medicine Bear then passed down his family heir loom of treaties that were signed by his father, Chief Medicine Bear, to his next living kin, who was Jerome First Sr., now deceased. The family descendants of Chief Medicine Bear will be sponsoring a dance contest which will be a total of $1,500.00 and other prizes.
Other activities to be held is the mens softball tourney to be held Saturday and Sunday at the Burton Rider Sports Complex field east of the celebration grounds,
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Volunteers put up fence around the arbor area of the Poplar celebration grounds, getting ready for this weekend's celebration.